Attorney General Martha Coakley, addressing a meeting of Martha’s Vineyard Democrats Saturday morning, said she feels confident about her chances to be elected the next governor.

As a months-long review by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission of expansion plans for the Vineyard Haven Stop & Shop continues, members of the commission expressed frustration late this week with the lack of progress.

And spokesmen for the international grocery chain told the commission that they have reduced the size of the plans as much as they can.

An Island man will go to jail for 18 months after pleading guilty to charges that include indecent assault and battery on a child.

Andrew R. Bradshaw, 49, pleaded guilty in Edgartown district court Friday to open and gross lewdness, indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 (amended from rape of a child with force) and two counts of enticing a child younger than 16.

Oak Bluffs will receive $2 million to install a boardwalk along Sea View avenue extension.

The state Seaport Advisory Council announced Thursday that the town’s public access improvement project was one of 11 seaport community projects chosen to receive funding.

A transformation in the night sky has taken place since summer, and the Milky Way has moved to a position where it is almost overhead. This is the season we are especially aware of the stars overhead as the nights are so much longer.

The constellations in the early evening sky now say autumn and early winter. The constellations Pegasus and Andromeda are overhead. Taurus, the bull, rises in the east.

The amendment would allow dispensaries by special permit at two lots on Dukes County avenue.

William J. (Bill) Roman, manager of the Edgartown Yacht Club, was recently named club manager of the year by the New England Club Managers Association. Mr. Roman was honored at a meeting of the club in Fitchburg on Oct. 21 at the club’s 99th annual meeting.

With an election set for this month to decide the top leadership post at the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) for the next three years, tribal members will face a clear choice: stay the course with a tribal chairman who has been at the helm for the past six years, or choose a new leader who is pitching the need for openness and change.

The popular local radio station WMVY, which has been an online entity since it lost its FM signal nine months ago, will return to the airwaves next spring. Barbara Dacey, a longtime deejay and the station’s director of worldwide programming, announced the news on the air just after 10 a.m. Thursday morning.

A postseason run that began in thrilling fashion earlier this week ended with a heartbreaker Wednesday evening as the undefeated Vineyard boys’ soccer team fell 2-1 to Medway in sudden death overtime at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association division three south sectional semifinals. The beautiful game is also a merciless one.